Recently, for the second year in a row, Playboy featured a few female videogame characters in its article scantily dressed if that at all. Fulfilling the male libido or damaging the videogame industry? In a recent article, one writer thinks that it could be doing more harm to the industry than one might think.

From the article:

Takahashi wonders if Playboy’s involvement is good or bad for gaming:

I have to wonder whether Playboy is pushing the game industry forward with its message about the growing diversity of games, or setting it back by emphasizing the sexist depiction of women, which can turn off half the human population and appeal to just a slice of the male population. It’s sort of like going to E3 to see a fantastically creative game — presented to you by a booth babe.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com